Intensive Treatment Foster Care

Since 1997, Aspiranet’s Intensive Treatment Foster Care (ITFC) Program has placed severely emotionally disturbed children with foster families willing to care for them. These specially trained families provide a stable alternative to institutional care for children who need a home-based treatment program with enriched support services. The program supports foster parents with effective therapeutic intervention that assures each child’s treatment is goal directed, outcome specific, and behaviorally oriented. The benefit is a long-term foster home placement with intensive counseling, case management, education, and the support services needed to create a nurturing environment for children to thrive. Support for Family Success

• Weekly individual and/or group therapy
• In-home behavioral support
• Round-the-clock emergency response plan;
• Psychiatric consultation
• Medication assessments, testing, and emergency response;
• Immediate access to mental health professionals
• Treatment plans within the first 30 days
• Respite for foster parents up to 48 hours per month

Hundreds of youth are currently residing in group homes across the state that would thrive in a family setting with experienced resource parents. Are you willing to help support children with significant behavioral needs? Aspiranet will help with training and education. You provide the sense of humor, patience and maturity. Families participating in this program must be willing to be a member of an extensive youth support team and be comfortable with a number of professionals working with them and the youth in their home. Every child deserves the right to live with a family. This program allows children to live in families while receiving the additional support they need to be successful. You can help. Contact us today.

Counties Served

 Fresno, Monterey, Stanislaus, San Bernardino, Santa Clara, Tulare and Ventura  

The amount of children who are removed from their homes each day due to abusive or neglectful circumstances is astonishing. Being removed from the one place they have come to know can be traumatic, and for those with the added concern of a developmental disability, can be even more disorienting.

In California, nearly 68,000 children under the age of 18 are in foster care and about 500,000 children are in placement nationwide. While the number of foster care homes has been diminishing over time, there are still thousands, some with developmental disabilities, in the state who are in need of permanent, loving homes. Support Partners Program offers encouragement and resources to families wanting to care for these children who require special attention.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, developmental disabilities are a diverse group of severe chronic conditions that are due to mental and/or physical impairments. These developmental disabilities often cause those affected to have problems with major life activities such as language, learning, mobility, and even independent living. Raising a child with a developmental disability can be an intricate process, so we partner foster families with social workers, aides, therapists, physicians, attorneys, and possibly birth family members.

Aspiranet is always looking for compassionate and loving foster families who are open to supporting children with developmental disabilities. Serving Santa Clara, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Ventura Counties, we have had great success implementing the Support Partners Program. These children deserve a home full of love with people who want to see them succeed in life.

Partners

Counties: Santa Clara, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz, Ventura, Santa Barbara Regional Center: San Andreas Regional Center, Tri-Counties Regional Center

Businesses: Since 2005, Polycom has donated holiday gifts to foster youth In 2009, Old Navy donated clothes to 10 foster children and sponsored a clothing drive.

Community-Based Organizations: Help One Child; Foster Agencies Coming Together; Adoption Agencies Coming Together; San Andreas Regional Center; SELPA; SCOE; CASA; Connected by 25; ILP Services; Santa Clara County Office of Education; Family 2 Family; Foster Youth Services Council (both in Monterey and San Benito counties): Legal Advocates for Children and Youth; Child Abuse Prevention Community Collaborative